You can’t ever tell where your destiny will take you. Taekwondo player Himanshu Visale would certainly attest to the former statement. Only last year Himanshu was participating in international Taekwondo tournaments and had even managed to win a gold. But the martial arts champion has now found a new vocation, that of acting! Yes, he would soon be seen on the big screen as he’s making his debut in the upcoming Marathi film titled Sobat. Produced by Kashmira Films and presented by Gurunath Mithbavkar, Sobat will be releasing all over Maharashtra on 25th May.

Actress Monalisa Bagal will be seen opposite Himanshu Visale in the lead role. The film also stars Ruchira Jadhav, Girish Pardeshi, Smita Gondkar, Nagesh Bhosale, Pradeep Velankar, Vijay Gokhale, Manoj Takne, Abhilasha Patil, Ashwin Patil, Kaustubh Joshi among others. Directed by Milind Ukey, Sobat is a love story of the young college-going Karan and Gauri who tie the knot despite opposition from Gauri’s family. He reasons that if the youth can vote at the age of 18 years, then why they don’t have the right to choose their own life partner? An 18-year-old is treated as an adult by the court in case of crimes, but can’t marry someone. The film attempts to raise such pertinent queries in an entertaining manner.

Talking about his debut, Himanshu said, “The producers cast me in their film on seeing my picture on the posters that were plastered all over after I had won the gold medal in the Taekwondo competition. Though I have no acting experience, I have taken part in school plays in my childhood.

“It was a pleasure to work with the entire team of Sobat and especially with an experienced director like Milind Ukey. We had done extensive rehearsals, so the shoot was a breeze.”

Talking about his future plans Himanshu said, “Well, I haven’t decided if I would pursue acting full-time, but if ever an opportunity arises I would definitely think about it.”

It would certainly be interesting to see a Taekwondo master like Himanshu performing on the big screen when Sobat releases on 25th May. Wishing him all the luck!

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• Movie : Sobat (2018) | सोबत
• Producer : Kashmira Visale
• Director : Milind K Ukey
• Studio : Kashmira Films and The Red Bulb Pictures
• Star Cast :
  • Himanshu Visale as Karan
  • Monalisa Bagal as Gauri
  • Ruchira Jadhav
  • Girish Pardeshi
  • Smita Gondkar
  • Nagesh Bhosale
  • Pradeep Velankar
  • Vijay Gokhale
  • Manoj Takne
  • Abhilasha Patil
  • Ashwin Patil
  • Kaustubh Joshi
  • Aishwarya Kale
• Story, Screenplay and Dialogues : Prem Kumar Sharma
• Additional Screenplay and Dialogues : Prakash Bhagwat
• Singer : Kshitij Tarey, Deepali Sathe
• Lyrics : Akshay Shinde
• Music : Swaroop Bhalwankar, Manoj Thakur, Kshitij Tarey and Ahsan Ahmed
• Sound Design and Re-Recording Mixer : Nageshwar Rao Chaudary
• Cinematography (DOP) : Aniket Khandagale
• Editor : Rohan Deshpande
• Executive Producer : Ravi Khaske
• Co-Producer : Milind K Ukey
• Presenter : Abhishek Jawkar and Gurunath Mithbavkar
• Production Design : Chandravadan More
• Visual Promotion : The Red Bulb Digital (Honey Sethi)
• Production Manager : Sanjay Bavaskar
• Supervising Producer : Sanket Gawali
• Marketing : The Red Bulb Media (Aayush Billore)
• Post-Production : Vikrant Studios
• DI Colourist : Abhishek Mehta
• Publicity Design : Brijesh Kalyanji Dedhia
• Genre : Drama
• Release Date : 25th May 2018

Synopsis : Karan and Gauri, a teenage couple decide to get married, however, on the day of marriage, Karan is arrested and presented in the court for being underage as per the marriage law in India. The judge asks Karan to apologize but he refuses. How he pleads the case, forms the crux.

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• Review : Police Line (2016)
• Producer : Rupali Dipak Pawar and Vaishali Nitin Pawar
• Directer : Raju Parsekar
• Star Cast : Santosh Juvekar, Jayant Savarkar, Satish Pulekar, Pradeep Patwardhan, Nisha Parulekar, Pramod Pawar,Vijay Kadam, Sayali Sanjiv, Jaywant Wadkar, Mansi Naik
• Writer : Dipak Shrirang Pawar
• Music : Pravin Kunwar and Abhishek Shinde
• Genre : Drama
• Review By : Rasik Tirodkar

Rating : 1.5/5

Review:

The police are undoubtedly one of the most overworked public servants in the state. They do not have any fixed duty hours; they are underpaid; and the housing colonies in which they live are crumbling structures. Police Line (a term used for colonies that house police) directed by Raju Parsekar attempts throws some light on the issues faced by the constables of the police.

The screenplay here just peeks into the life of a number of character living in a housing colony of the police and tries to portray all their trials and tribulations. It lacks any sort of a plot. Though a lack of plot isn’t necessarily a recipe for disaster, but the characters here are poorly sketched and a little too many for our liking. Throughout the whole first half we are just introduced to these characters and almost nothing significant of any sort happens in the film. The first half is a serious test of our patience. The proceedings are so drab that I was finding difficult to not doze off. The treatment is very marathi tv like, full of melodrama and very poor acting.

There isn’t exactly a lead character here, but Bala played by Santosh Juvekar has been given the most screen time. He is the son of a retired police constable who is an upright gentleman, proud of the honesty with which he has performed his duty of a policeman. His married elder son, who has also joined the police, doesn’t believe in his father’s ideals and blames them for his family’s misery. Bala is a studious young man who plans to become a software engineer.

There are a number of other such families living in the same housing colony that the film sheds light on, but not even a single one of their stories holds our attention. The filmmaking is very outdated and bland. The setting is based in the 90s for the most part and it also feels that the film too was made in the 90s. There are numerous cringe-worthy scenes that had me squirming in my seat. Another aspect that works completely against the film is the preachy tone. Right from the voice over in the beginning the preaching begins and doesn’t end till the end credits stop rolling. Some characters just go on and on about the miseries of a police constable.

In a well-intentioned film like Police Line, I always make that extra effort to find something positive. But, unfortunately, apart from the noble intentions I couldn’t find anything even remotely worthy of any praise. The policemen, much like the policies of the government, have here been given a raw deal; they deserved hell of a lot better.

Overall:

A well-intentioned film, but drab and preachy.

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• Movie : Police Line (2016) | पोलीस लाईन : एक पूर्ण सत्य
• Producer : Rupali Dipak Pawar and Vaishali Nitin Pawar
• Directer : Raju Parsekar
• Studio : Saishree Creations and Jijau Creations
• Star Cast : Santosh Juvekar, Jayant Savarkar, Satish Pulekar, Pradeep Patwardhan, Nisha Parulekar, Pramod Pawar,Vijay Kadam, Sayali Sanjiv, Jaywant Wadkar, Mansi Naik, Purnima Ahire- Kend, Nutan Jayant, Pranav Ravrane, Satish Salagare, Jaywant Patekar, Swapnil Rajshekhar, Sharmila Baviskar, Manoj Takne, Balkrushna Shinde, Atul Sanas, Riyaaz Mulani, Sandesh Lokegaonkar, Sheetal Kalapure, Ashwini Surpur, Leena Palekar, Aarti Kulkarni, Dinesh More, Umesh Bolke, Parth Ghorpade, Yuvraj More and Pradeep Kabare.
• Story : Dipak Shrirang Pawar
• Screenplay : Amar Parkhe, Sandesh Lokhegaonkar and Raju Parsekar
• Music : Pravin Kunwar and Abhishek Shinde
• Lyrics : Kautuk Shirodkar and Nitin Tendulkar
• Singers : Adarsh Shinde, Bharti Madhavi and Pravin Kunwar
• Dialogues : Amar Parkhe, Sandesh Lokhegaonkar and Raju Parsekar
• Director of Photography : Nilesh Vinayak Dhamale
• Editor : Satish Patil
• Choreographer : Santosh Palvankar
• Executive Producer : Balasaheb Patil and Vishal Chavan
• Genre  : Dramma
• Release Date : 05th Feb 2016

Synopsis: The film sheds light on various aspects of a policeman such as his personal life, family life and his life in the residential society.

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In the very comedy based Marathi films genre , a tradition, anothyer filmis added to the list with ‘Wanted Bayko Number One‘ is coming to woo the audiences. The obvious comedy from the title of the film had resently had it’s music launch at the hands of TSERIES head honcho Kishan Kumar in a glittering ceremony held in Mumbai. Kishan Kum,ar gave his best wishes to the entire team of the film. The film will see the sensational combination of comedy King Makarand Anaspure and the belligerent actor Sayaji Shinde. The film is produced by Dreamcatchers Productions and co-produced by Rekhansh Arora. The film is directed by Raju Parsekarand will release on June 19.

The story of the film is about a simpleton son Dinkar , the son of a dreaded criminal Bhaskar who terrorises everyone and hence no one is williong to give their girl to marry Dinkar whoi has crossed 30 yeas of age and is eagerly awaiting for marriage but to no avail because even after the demise of Dinkar’s father , no one is willing to give a girl to him for marriage and once he goes to a gym owned by Kapil played bySayaji Shinde andfalls in love with a girl who comes to the gym Neha played by Tejaswini Lonare and Dinkar tries to woo her but the hitch is that the astrologer of Neha’s family have told the mother of Neha that if Neha Marries, then her husband will die after marriage but if the husband is a widower or a divorced man , then the marriage will be successful. Meanwhile Dinkar is trying to woo the girl with the help of Kapil who takes the help ofa bar girl to set straight Dinkar’s marriage but to his horror Kapil’s wife thinks that Kapil is having an affair with the bargirl and his marriage almost comes to a break up. Do Neha and Dinkar marry? Is Kapil’s marriage saved? See all this in the extremely comedy film.

The film stars Makarand Anaspure., Sayaji Shinde, Tejaswini Lonari, Sanjay Khapre, Smita Gondkar, Maithili Warang, Manoj Takne, Vijay Gokhale, Hemangi Rao, Krunali Kapoor, Prajakta Dake, Pooja Tayde, and Snehal Biraje. The music is by Pravin Kunvar and lyrics by Rajesh Barmule and Sanjali Rode , the story is by Rajan Aggarwal, dialogues and screenplay by Arvind Jagtap . The choreographer is Mayuresh Wadkar and art is by Sandesh Bidkar and DOP is Wahab, and editingby Gaurav Meshram andcostumes by Chaitrali Dongre.

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• Movie : Wanted Bayko Number One (2014)
• Produced By : R. Arora, Mayuresh Wadkar
• Directed By : Raju Pareskar
• Studio : Dream Catchers Motion Pictures, JVM Entertainment
• Star Cast : Makrand Anaspure, Sayyaji Shinde, Tejaswini Lonari, Smita Gondkar, Maithili Warang, Sanjay Khapre, Manoj Takne
• Written By : Arvind Jagtap
• Music : Praveen Kunwar
• Lyrics : Rajesh Bamugade and Sanjali Rode
• Playback Singers : Vaishali Samant, Swapnil Bandodkar, Anandi Joshi, Shikha Jain and Jasraj Joshi
• Editor : Gaurav Meshram
• Dialogues : Arvind Jagtap
• choreographer : Mayuresh Wadekar
• Costumes : Chaitrali Dongre
• Make Up : Santosh Gaike
• Executive Producers  : Babasaheb Patel, Vishal Chauhan and Sachin Agrawal
• Genre : Comedy
• Release Date : NA

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